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The Piko railbus has little fins hanging down from it's skates to guide the 2 axles around curves. If you do not want them anymore (mine are going to be battery and LGB R5 points do not like the "fins") you may be interested in how to run them without the skates.
First- don't think you can get away without them. I run to a minimum rad R5 but experiments show not even this will work "skateless". One axle or the other ends up askew and once it is like that it stays that way. The flange sits onto the inner rail edge and slides round until it meets a point or anything but the most perfect railjoint when the whole vehicle will bounce of the rail.
Fear not the solution is simple. You need four small black rubber bands. loop one through the leaf spring mount each side of each bogie and the other end is hooked over the coupler mounting pivot. The bogies then self centre, and run smoothly for hours in and out of points. I only have R5 but I suspect it would work down to a much smaller radius too. I ran at max speed in all directions through all point combinations and it didn't derail. Sans skates and rubber bands it would not last half a lap even at scale speed.
First- don't think you can get away without them. I run to a minimum rad R5 but experiments show not even this will work "skateless". One axle or the other ends up askew and once it is like that it stays that way. The flange sits onto the inner rail edge and slides round until it meets a point or anything but the most perfect railjoint when the whole vehicle will bounce of the rail.
Fear not the solution is simple. You need four small black rubber bands. loop one through the leaf spring mount each side of each bogie and the other end is hooked over the coupler mounting pivot. The bogies then self centre, and run smoothly for hours in and out of points. I only have R5 but I suspect it would work down to a much smaller radius too. I ran at max speed in all directions through all point combinations and it didn't derail. Sans skates and rubber bands it would not last half a lap even at scale speed.
